...xxiii. 13: whose rites and worshippers are thus graphically described by the deepleanted Milton : " First Moloch, horrid ' king,' besmeared with blood...and parents' tears ; Though for the noise of drums und timbrels loud. Their children's cries unheard, that past thro' fire To his grim idol. Him the Ammonite...

...lives of his subjects to his idol " reform," as the Jews had sacrificed their children in the valley to Moloch,—" horrid king, besmeared with blood of human sacrifice, and parents' tears." Another sign—an horizontal motion of the hand—a gentle pantomime to denote the yataghan's application...

...abominations were performed was named Tophet, or Gehenna lo : near 10 Moloch, horrid king, besmear'd with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears...timbrels loud, Their children's cries unheard, that pass'd through fire To his grim idol. His pore The pleasant vale of Hinnom, Tophet thence. And black...

...profaned, And with their darkness durst affront his light. First Moloch, horrid king, hesmear'd with hlood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears ; Though, for the noise of drums and timhrels loud, Their children's cries unheard, that pass'd through fire, To his grim idol. Him the...

...compounded of a man and a fish. The Syrians worshipped BAAL, THAMMUZ, MAGOG, ASTARTE, and so forth. Next Moloch, horrid king besmeared with blood Of human...unheard, that passed through fire To his grim idol. Him the Ammonite Worshipp'd in Rabba, and her wat'ry plain. Next Chemos, the obscene dread of Moab's...

...feasts profan'd, And with their darkness durst affront his light. First, Moloch, horrid king, besmear'd with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears...timbrels loud Their children's cries unheard, that pass'd through fire To his grim idol. Him the Ammonite Worshipt in Rabba and her watery plain, In Argob...

...antecedent with the relative, may be perceived at the pause after 'unheard,' in the following lines : First, Moloch, horrid king, besmeared with blood Of...children's cries unheard, that passed through fire To hi» grim idol. Let us take one more example illustrative of the principle of intonation here laid...

...feasts profan'd, And with their darkness durst affront his light. First, Moloch, horrid king, besmear'd with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears;...and timbrels loud Their children's cries unheard, pass'd through fire To his grim idol. Him the Ammonite Worshipt hi Rabba and her watery plain, In Argob...

...curse to the idolatrous world. " First Moloch, horrid king, besmeared with blood Of human sacrifices, and parents' tears ; Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, 1 Their children's cries unheard, that passed thro' fire To his grim idol." Phoenicians used to worship...

...profan'd, 390 And with their darkness durst affront his light. First , Moloch , horrid king , besmear'd with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears; Though for the noise of drums and timbrel* loud Their children's cries unheard, that pass'd through fire 395 To his grim idol. Him the...